About Me

An Englishman from London, I've spent more than half my life now in the Philippines, with two grown-up daughters and a wife of more than 30 years to prove it. I run an export business making eco-friendly animals of vegetable fiber, a play reading group, and appear in plays and films when I can. I have long felt western civilization needs to turn over a new leaf, but I see now that we all do.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

SECRECY, CONSPIRACY, AND LIES

I have chiefly had men's views
confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of
commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of something. They know that there is a
power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so
complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when
they speak in condemnation of it. The New Freedom. Woodrow Wilson, 1913

There are a number of controversial issues - 9/11, and
the existence of extra terrestrials prominent among them – about which all
doubts (to judge from our derisive dismissal of those who disagree with the
official position) have been satisfactorily laid to rest. About 9/11 we have been prompted by our
authorities not to believe “conspiracy theories”. They have explained to us that the hijacking
of the four planes on 9/11 was carried out by 19 Arab Muslim fanatics armed
with box cutters, and that not to believe this reflects the need to find
simple solutions to otherwise incomprehensible acts in a world too complex for
the man in the street to understand. We have been similarly assured that there
is no evidence whatever to support a belief in the existence of extra
terrestrial intelligence; mold on Mars,
maybe, but non-human intelligence; so
far none detected; anywhere. The highest
intelligences in the known universe reside right here on Earth, in the shape of
our politicians and senior decision makers. We bolster these reassuring denials with our own
confident assertion about large conspiracies that “Nothing as big as that could
be hidden!” End of discussion.

I want to take a few moments to examine these two assumptions
– that our authorities are trustworthy, and that large truths cannot be hidden.
They turn out to be intimately related. To do this I’m going to have to quote extensively
from the highest authorities I can find. There’s no point in me trying to
tackle this topic myself – who will believe me? Who but the authorities
themselves have the – well, the authority to convince the public that they can’t
be trusted?

But right away I think you see the problem. If someone in
authority confesses that he is untrustworthy, how can he be telling the truth? His
very position in our society refutes it. Will we not rather tend to admire him
for his candor; or even his modesty? Will we not rather continue to trust our
authorities for the very reason they themselves give: that we cannot afford not to trust them? Implicit in our trust is the prayerful belief, as innocent
as that of a child in the grip of a pedophile, that they must be on our side. Oh no! Don’t
talk to me about checks and balances, the free press! They’re all – those that
matter - bought, blackmailed, intimidated, and compromised. The voices
that can speak out are permitted because they can’t be heard. Safely confined
to “zones of free speech” they can be pointed to as proof that democracy exists. So, we’re in a double bind here, a kind of Catch 22. Those that can
speak truth to power lack the authority to be believed, while those that
have sufficient credibility can for that very reason speak freely of their
treachery, knowing we cannot afford to believe them. And so, I suspect, it has always been.

But anyway, here goes –

We’ll know our disinformation program
is complete when everything the American public believes is false.William
Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

Did you get that? You did? The hell you did! If youdid,
nine tenths of this blog needn’t have been written! Go back and read it again…twice!... Ok. On we go –

In most of its operations, the CIA is by definition a
conspiracy, using covert actions and secret plans, many of which are of the
most unsavory kind. What are covert operations if not conspiracies? At the same
time, the CIA is an institution, a structural part of the national security
state. In sum, the agency is an
institutionalized conspiracy. [Emphasis mine - PH] http://www.theprogressivemind.info/?p=22849" The JFK
Assassination II: conspiracy phobia on the left", Michael Parenti,
1996, with commentary at the above link.

And,

Deception is a state of mind, and
the mind of the State. James Angleton, Head of CIA Counter
Intelligence, 1954-75

Is this beginning to
sound a bit Orwellian to you? Don’t worry, you’re in good company:

I never
would have agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in
forty-sevenif I had known it
would become the American Gestapo.”

That’s
right, Gestapo. And that was President Harry Truman. Still not with the
program? That’s totally understandable,

The individual is handicapped by
coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.J. Edgar Hoover, ex-FBI director (referring
in this case to the conspiracy to create the New World Order).

And of course to
hide every big conspiracy from the trusting public there must be a big lie,
about which -

…there
is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation
are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature
than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their
minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie…. It
would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they
would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which
prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt
and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. [Emphasis mine - PH]

Adolph Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X, translated by James
Murphy

If the first assumption – that our authorities are trustworthy – is erroneous, then so, surely, is the second. For it follows, as night follows day, that if you cannot trust your authorities, then in all the matters over which you have given them that authority you are in the dark. To put it another way, if whistle blowers could expose the treachery of our leaders with impunity, there’d very quickly be no treachery left to expose.

But isn’t thatexactly what we believe? Annie Machon, an ex-operative of MI5, Britain’s
equivalent of the FBI, has tried to shake us out of our complacent naivety. She and David Shay, then both MI5
agents, blew the whistle on MI5 and MI6 after uncovering false flag operations
they funded and in which entirely innocent bystanders were killed. "False
flag operations are perfectly normal,” she tells us matter-of-factly, in the
interview (linked here). “This is what intelligence agencies do." The killing of innocent bystanders, however,
was illegal under British law. This in
turn presented David and Annie with a dilemma –

MI5 is supposed to protect national
security… They are a law unto themselves. There is no real oversight in the UK
at all. If you work for the agencies and you witness crime there is nowhere you
can turn to to report that crime apart from the head of the agency... There is
no accountability. ... They are working for the interests of the
Establishment... of which they are a part...

How are we to believe this? If you
are British it flies in the face of much that you have been brought up to hold
dear. So, who is lying here? Is it the British government and its intelligence
community, or is it this lone woman? Annie Machon continues -

The price we paid [as
whistleblowers] was very high. If you work for a corporation you have certain
protections under the law. If you are a whistleblower from MI5 or MI6 you are
the criminal, because there is a piece of law called the Official Secrets Act,
and if you speak to anyone, ever, about your work, then you've broken that.
There is no defense under law. So even if you are reporting murder on the part
of the spies you are the criminal, and not the murderers. It's that simple.

It gets worse. Unable to take their
tale to their superiors in MI5, they tried to break it to the newspapers. In
this way they hoped both to gain some protection from the retribution that was
sure to follow, as well as the publicity necessary if the British Secret
Services were to be brought to heel. In
attempting this Annie and David discovered

The media have become part of the Establishment,
the system. They're no longer part of the Fourth Estate, holding the system to
account.

Moreover -

I-Ops [MI5's Information Operations
department] is designed to deliberately manipulate the media in the UK; where
they plant fake stories, and where they spin stories, and where they massage
stories that they want to control. So there are official mechanisms for
manipulating the mainstream media in the UK... It's something we all need to be
aware of: quite how controlled the media is - by the spies, as well as by the
governments.

In attempting to blow the
whistle on very grave wrongdoing Annie and David put themselves on the wrong side
of the Establishment; that is to say, outside the mainstream, and the realm of
authority within whose closely-guarded borders you and I are comfortably
confined. Their voices therefore cannot be heard where it matters, in the
mainstream press. But since their voices can
be heard where it doesn’t matter,
the illusion of freedom is preserved.

Awakening to the huge
political transformation evolving in the wake of 9/11 an attempt was made
recently by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Dana Priest to map
– literally - the extent of government secrecy in America. In her words “There
was something out there that was not there before 9/11, and it was
growing.” In the trailer(linked here) to the one hour
PBS Frontline expose Top Secret America,
she claims that “close to 500 organizations and 2000 contracting companies” in the
United States are engaged in “top secret work… There are close to a million
people who are living in this different world.” Marcus Brauchli, Executive
Editor of the Washington Post, adds
that there are “17,000 locations,
1,300 government entities, 3,666 private sector entities, 1,200 government
agencies” thus engaged. Perhaps not surprisingly, in
view of the subject matter, the trailer to Top
Secret America promised more than the documentary finally delivered. Said
one disappointed viewer of the latter,

I've waited for this documentary for
well over a year now, and I was STUNNED by what I saw tonight when it finally
aired. It was a complete SNOWJOB. Frontline spent less than 5 minutes talking
about the massive domestic intelligence machine spying on Americans since 2001.
They used old material from previous documentaries on Iraq and Afghanistan as
filler for the other 55 minutes.

Darn it! Foiled again!

In an address at the Drone
Summit in 2012 author and journalist Jeremy Scahill, commenting on the fate of
whistle blowers in the U.S., echoed the words of Annie Machon in the UK -

The application of the Espionage Act -
unprecedented, record-setting - to go after whom? People who blew the whistle
on Bush Era crimes. Those who participated in the warrantless, illegal tapping
of US Citizens can walk around as free citizens - unless they blow the whistle
on it.

Then, you're going to be prosecuted, then they're going to ruin your life.
Then, they're going to knock down your door, and snatch you and threaten you;
take you and try to put you on trial. As John Kyriakou, the former CIA agent
did, if you talk about water-boarding, they will go after you [Kyriakou was sentenced to 30 months
in prison on January 25, 2013].
If you DO the water-boarding, you get to write a book, like Jose Rodriguez, who
destroyed the CIA interrogation tapes and is running around bragging about it -
and we're going to have to see him all over this country while he pimps his
book - and he's on 60 Minutes tomorrow night.

So, we live in an upside down society, where the people that orchestrate these
policies; that are torturing people, that are using robotic warfare to kill
people based on "pattern of life" and not evidence that they've been
involved in any crime or act of terrorism, whatsoever - those people, who are
engaged in these activities, they're going to retire with the pensions. But
those people who blow the whistle on it are going to have to fear for their
liberty, every day that they walk around.

It's chilling what it's done. We already had a totally pliant media culture in
this country - the White house Sycophant Association is having their dinner
tonight. With few exceptions, that's what it is. These White House
Correspondents that sit there, correspond whatever the agenda is, in the White
House and they serve as conveyor belts for the lies and the propaganda of
whoever happens to be up at that podium.

Author and journalist Jeremy
Scahill, speaking at the Drone Summit,
April 28, 2012.

So, what is the American
government so busy working on that it doesn’t want even its own public to find
out? I’ve already talked quite a bit about 9/11,
the most audacious false flag operation in America’s history, of which the
repercussions still continue, but I’ve not yet tackled extra terrestrials. I did
mention them back at the start of this post, so why don’t we take a look at them?

Just this week, as it happens,
a three-day Citizens’ Hearing on Disclosure was conducted in Washington DC on
this very subject. Not a blip in the mainstream media about this, of course –
these guys are all crackpots, after all. Still, if appearances are anything to
go by they’re a great deal saner than, and at least as intelligent as, our
politicians. The purpose of this hearingwas to tear away the cloak of
secrecy which has smothered the UFO phenomenon for the last sixty-five years,
by first compiling massive professional witness testimony (linked below), and
then bringing together live witnesses to testify at the hearingitself – from
which another documentary film is planned to be made and distributed.

I myself have seen a flying
saucer, so I am receptive to their testimony. But, experts and professionals
though they are in their various fields, they do not have the imprimatur of our
authorities, so you may be less inclined to believe them.

Nevertheless the two-part compendium of
testimony linked below, primarily by professional military personnel, is the
most devastating proof of alien contact with our planet – short of actually seeing
ETs yourself - that I have ever come across. Here’s Part 1.As the second part gets under
way the testimony builds… and builds. At approximately minute 40 Dr. Steven M.
Greer gets into the matter of secrecy and – what I have not touched on – compartmentalization, or the principle
of the need to know, which makes such massive secrecy possible. He who is at
the top sees everything. At successively lower tiers of the information pyramid
you are privy to less and less. And then of course there’s the Official Secrets
Act. Here’s Part 2.

After the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure ended I scanned the web for any acknowledgement from the mainstream media,and - wonder of wonders! - there was one mention, by none other than the Washington Post. I had cancelled my subscription to that propaganda outlet several years ago, but I clicked on it, and here it is.

Yes, as far as our mainstream media are concerned, evidence and testimony be damned, it's still crackpots chasing little, green, bug-eyed monsters.William Colbywould be pleased. However, I have seldom, if ever, seen such a unanimous chorus of protest as this carelessly contemptuousreviewer generated in the Comments section. Maybe the tide is turning.

2 comments:

I don't have time to delve deeply today, but you need to see this: http://metabunk.org/threads/158-Debunked-quot-The-CIA-owns-everyone-of-any-significance-in-the-major-media-quot

I did watch the trailer of the PBS, and I am not at all surprised that 911 opened up a ton of "market" opportunities. But what makes something secret? Just because mass media does not report it? Don't you lock your company doors to outsiders?

I'm failing to see the "collective goal" of all this so-called secrecy.

I think my point is a simple one: we believe that tax-payer-funded institutions serve the taxpayer. In fact they often serve the interests of a small elite. The CIA, the FBI, the armed forces and the police primarily serve the interests of the rich and powerful - a necessarily covert state of affairs with which it is perfectly possible to live in considerable, if determinedly blind, harmony, but whose hegemony you challenge at your peril. Whistle blowers as a group make the mistake of believing they're blowing the whistle on the deviant underling, when in fact they're blowing the whistle on the boss. Democracy is guided.